Joseph borbett



(No Model.)

J. BORRETT.

BOOT AND SHOE SOLE PLATE. No. 320,328. Patented June 16, 1885.

N. FETiRi Phowumo npher, wumn m 11a NlTE TATEs JOSEPH BORRETT, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

BOOT AND SHOE SOLE PLATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,328, dated June 16, 1885.

Application filed August 26, 1884.

(No model.) Patented in England March 19. 1884, No. 5,136; in Germany April 11, 1884, No.

28,725; in France April 18, 1884, No. 155,929, and in Canada March 27, 1885, No. 21,325.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, JosErH Bonnnr'r, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at London, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Boot and Shoe Sole Protecting Plates, (for which I have obtained a certificate of addition in France, dated April 18, 1884, and a patent of addition in Germany, No. 28,725, dated April 11, 1884,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to further improvements on the invention for which a patent was granted to me in Germany, dated June 7, 1883, No. 25,820; in France, dated June 8, 1883, No. 155,929, and in the United States, dated May 27, 1884, No. 299,455.

In carrying out these improvements I employ a metal frame or skeleton plate of a construction similar to that described in the specification of my said former patent, but smaller, so as to leave a margin or border of the sole of leather or other material (iito which sole the metal plate or skeleton frame is embedded) all round the outer edge of the metal plate or skeleton frame.

In order to enable these improvements to be fully understood, I will describe the same by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents an elevation of a boot manufactured according to the said improvements. Fig. 2 is a section on line A B of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan of the under side of the boot, and Fig. 4 is a plan showing the middle sole of a boot wit-h the combined leather sole and metal plate sewed thereto. Fig. 5 is a section showing headed pins secured in the plate.

Similar letters in all the figures represent similar parts.

a is the metal frame or skeleton plate, of similar construction to that described in my original patent, but smaller than the sole 1', of leather or other material, into which the metal plate or skeleton frame a is embedded, as shown in Fig. 2, thereby leaving a margin or border, a", of the sole all round the outer edge of the metal plate or skeleton frame a.

ff are the cross-bars of this frame. 9 g are the projections on the under side of the frame a. j j are the pieces of cork or other suitable water-proof material for filling up the spaces between the middle sole, n, of the boot and the upper surface of the leather or the like in the frame a. By this arrangement I am enabled to attach the combined sole and metal plate or skeleton frame i a to the middle sole, n, or to the welt or upper either by screwing or riveting or by stitching (by any ordinary machine or by hand) through the margin z" of the sole 2' outside the metal frame or skeleton plate a, whereby a better seam is ob tained, all risk of the metal frame or skeleton plate a coming away from the leather or other sole is prevented, and less weight of metal is required for the same amount of wear. The improved construction also allows of the boots or shoes being fair-stitched, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The lines marked 0 in the drawings show the stitches.

It will be obvious that the improvements are applicable to parts of the sole instead of to the whole sole.

For shooting and similar boots I sometimes employ headed pins, which I screw into tapped holes in the embedded metal frame or skeleton plate. Fig. 5 is a section showing this arrangement, in which a is the metal plate or skeleton frame, and a a show headed pins screwed into the metal plate or skeleton frame a.

Having thus described the nature of my said invention, what I claim is The combination, with a leather or other outer sole for boots or shoes, of a cast-metal skeleton frame of smaller size or area than the solo in which it is embedded, and havin a course or series of projections on its unde r side at its outer edge, and having connectin cross-bars, and having,when connected to uf leather in which it is embedded, a margin or border of such leather left all around such plate, and whereby the upper of a boot or shoe may be sewed or otherwise secured to the sole around and outside of the edge of such plate and through said margin, as and for the purposes described.

JOSEPH BORRETT.

\Vitnesses:

A. ALBUTT, B. BRADY. 

